1:49AM

My flight leaves at 8AM but I am leaving with Rodny when he will catch a cab at 4AM. There is about 2 hours left here. I want it to instead be 2 weeks left here.

OK Lets Vote

put a comment saying what should we do on friday. i want to have a total blast at our sendoff and we gotta figure out something to do beforehand ...

yeay alex is staying :)

too tired to blog

so a lot of krazy stuff has been happening lately. unfortunately i have neither the attention nor free time to properly compose an informative post... sorry

Quote of the Day

"The simplest explanation is the best"

-- Occam's Razor

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor)

no dont go into the light

almost done ... wrapping up the powerpoint right now. we just had a great dinner at a french restaurant and i heard some great stories from our professor. she is really quite a woman, she's seen a lot of times and places go by and she still runs around the world on business trips. wow. i hope to nourish a conviction for life as well as she has so evidently done.

1:42AM

Kein Mehrheit für die Mitleid

I know you're all clamoring for more lyrical gynmastics. The rebuttal ensues ...



"KMFDM -- Dogma"

All we want is a headrush
All we want is to get out of our skin for a while
We have nothing to lose because we don't have anything
Anything we want anyway...
We used to hate people
Now we just make fun of them
It's more effective that way
We don't live
We just scratch on day to day
With nothing but matchbooks and sarcasm in our pockets
And all we are waiting for is for something worth waiting for
Let's admit America gets the celebrities we deserve
Let's stop saying "Don't quote me" because if no one quotes you
You probably haven't said a thing worth saying
We need something to kill the pain of all that nothing inside
We all just want to die a little bit
We fear that pop-culture is the only culture we're ever going to have
We want to stop reading magazines
Stop watching T.V.
Stop caring about Hollywood
But we're addicted to the things we hate
We don't run Washington and no one really does
Ask not what you can do for your country
Ask what your country did to you
The only reason you're still alive is because someone
Has decided to let you live
We owe so much money we're not broke we're broken
We're so poor we can't even pay attention
So what do you want?
You want to be famous and rich and happy
But you're terrified you have nothing to offer this world
Nothing to say and no way to say it
But you can say it in three languages
You are more than the sum of what you consume
Desire is not an occupation
You are ultimately thrilled and desperate
Skyhigh and fucked
Let's stop praying for someone to save us and start saving ourselves
Let's stop this and start over
Let's go out - let's keep going
This is your life - this is your fucking life
We need something to kill the pain of all that nothing inside
Quit whining you haven't done anything wrong because frankly
You haven't done much of anything
Someone's writing down your mistakes
Someone's documenting your downfall

The Nephilim

So ... you may have noticed the loud rock blaring in my room. It runs deeper than that ... here are the lyrics for the day.



"AFI -- Death Of Season"

Of late, it's harder just to go outside
To leave this deadspace with hatred, so alive
Writhing with sickness, thrown into banality, I decay
Killed by the weakness, but forced to return, turn it off

I watch the stars as they fall from the sky
I held a fallen star and it wept for me, dying
I feel the fallen stars encircle me now, as they cry

Out there so quickly grows malignant tribes
Posthuman extinction excels unrecognized
Feeling surrounded, so bored with mortality, I decay
All of this hatred is fucking real, turn it on... yeah

I watch the stars as they fall from the sky
I held a fallen star and it wept for me, dying
I feel the fallen stars encircle me now, as they cry

It won't be all right despite what they say
Just watch the stars tonight as they, as they disappear, disintegrate
And I disintegrate 'cause this hate is fucking real
And I hope to shade the world as stars go out and I disintegrate

Quote of the Day

"If I had clean shorts on, I'd throw them at you"

-- Appreciative MATLAB disciple.

Fairy Godmother

Just had a strange meeting with the Beaz at lunch. When I went down for the BBQ, she ambushed me at the table. We talked and she gave me the impression that I actually have a chance at ... getting into UCB EECS. Wow....!!!!!!! I had pretty much assumed it to be a vague sort of dream that I would have to align my next 12-18mo to have a shot at, but she made it almost sound viable.

First off, she told me not to go into (UCB) BioE if I would already much prefer EE. Although many projects are interdisciplinary, she said for me to stick with my passion.

Furthermore, she hinted that I should wrap up my BS this fall and TAKE OUT A LOAN because she said that for an engineering student it would be a "good idea." This sounds like a hint ... I need more info from these admin people before committing to such a financial responsibility, though.

She asked me for my GPA ... I said 3.5 in UWEE ... and she said that was OK. Apparently they respect a 3.5GPA from UWEE since its a "good school."

She told me to get an 800 on GRE math (and ALSO to take it BEFORE leaving here)

She told me to sign up for a program (adepa?) that promotes hispanics, etc. for sponsored campus visits to places like UCB.

She told me to pick WHICH faculty I want to do research with. Compare lists derived from the UCBEECS and UWEE departments and make a serious decision about who I want to work with most.

She told me to maintain a good relationship with Sheila Humphreys.

She told me to get a letter of rec from a UWEE faculty that is respected here. Ask Sheila for a list of respected UWEE faculty members.

... and of course I will also apply for the EDGE conference so that I can come back in the fall for a short bit.

Whoah. Is this possible ...

Research

10 days left ... I can't believe it. I've made a lot of progress this summer and decided to share one of the more interesting plots to my legions of fans.

This is a plot of the power contained in time-frequency space for a single trial for a given current dipole of interest. At time zero is when a visual cue is given, and at time 1 second is when a visual image is given. Notice that the alpha band is excited near the cue and the beta band is excited throughout most of the trial. Additionally, note that the gamma band becomes excited only after the visual image is supplied.

Cool huh?

IM ALIVE?!

I haven't posted anything substantial in a while so ...

Last week was a lot of activity. When I wasn't working on Remote Desktop or in Cory Hall, I hung out with the Kr3W of Floss, ReyDelMundo, Bombastic, Alex, Marblez, Elis3, Lamchop, and sometimes the MATLAB n00b too (shes on her way to guru-hood however). We watched movies, went out to eat together, and generally hung out. This has been a great summer and although my constitution may be taking a hit, I'm going to remember this time for a long while to come.

This week needs to be more activity, all work. Although I'd greatly enjoy crashing Alex's latin american movie viewings or go to places like Blakes at night, this next week should be an exercise in temperance. This will be very hard. Will our intrepid hero seperate the wheat from the chaff? Or will he be consumed by the ecstatic and sidestep the plague of responsibilities that lays siege to his sanity? Stay tuned!

Another blog

Another victim of the IHOUSE cafeteria has posted many pictures on her own blog. Her names Elise and she's in many of these pictures.

HER BLOG

Oh yeah and I also in many of them

Update

Hey. Its the fifth week and I am in a *crunch* to get this all done, well! Here is a picture of Lana helping me out when I'm working hard.

Yup thats right, thats my dorm room. Here are two movies of my dorm room. They are VERY big (100MB) so only access this from a high speed link!! Like Trabant!!

Movie 1

Movie 2 (Rey is the one rapping on my bed and Penn doesnt really do much, as he stands in the doorway)

OK thats it for now!! I'll try to put more up real soon.